On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can this overflow the buffer? Submodule state is supposed to be 4
> characters, so could do
>
> /*
> * T XY SSSS:
> * T = line type, XY = status, SSSS = submodule state
> */
> if (buf.len < 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 4)
> die("BUG: invalid status --porcelain=2 line
> %s",
> buf.buf);
>
> if (buf.buf[5] == 'S' && buf.buf[8] == 'U')
> /* untracked file */
> dirty_submodule |= DIRTY_SUBMODULE_UNTRACKED;
>
> if (memcmp(buf.buf + 5, "S..U", 4))
> /* other change */
> dirty_submodule |= DIRTY_SUBMODULE_MODIFIED;
good idea, will use.
> }
>
>> + /* nested submodule handling */
>> + if (buf.buf[6] == 'C' || buf.buf[7] == 'M')
>> + dirty_submodule |=
>> DIRTY_SUBMODULE_MODIFIED;
>> + if (buf.buf[8] == 'U')
>> + dirty_submodule |=
>> DIRTY_SUBMODULE_UNTRACKED;
>> + } else
>> + dirty_submodule |= DIRTY_SUBMODULE_MODIFIED;
>> + }
>
> I get lost in these cases. What does it mean if we see S..., for
> example?
That means there is a submodule with no new commits, no modified files
and no untracked files. ("Why did we even output this?", oh because of
it is in either 2 (moved) or because the hashes are different, i.e.
we already added the new HEAD of the submodule)
>
> Some tests covering these cases with --porcelain=2 and a brief mention
> in documentation may help.
ok, will do.
